Company Continues Personnel Growth with New Leadership Role

Greensboro, N.C. (November 17, 2014)—Pace, a leading content marketing agency, is pleased to announce that Gordon Price Locke has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer. Locke will be based in the Greensboro, N.C., office, where he will be responsible for helping existing clients develop winning content programs and to ensure that our new clients harness the strength of Pace in reaching their strategic objectives.

Gordon is a marketing industry veteran with a forward-facing view of emerging digital marketing practices. He has over 23 years of global marketing leadership experience, ranging from running large enterprise marketing organizations and re-engineering some well-known brands to repositioning product portfolios and illuminating the best possible stories about a company’s products and services. Gordon is joining Pace from D Custom, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, where he served as President.

“Our portfolio continues to grow, and Gordon’s multifaceted marketing and executive leadership experience complements Pace’s team, direction and culture—we are thrilled to have him join,” says President Craig Waller.

Gordon’s combined history of client-side and agency work is diverse, touching a wide variety of industries and brands such as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Hawaiian Airlines, Sabre Airline Solutions and Rosenbluth-American Express to HP, Dell, Teradata, Nestle Purina, Fossil, Ryan, Insigniam and Intuit.

“I have watched Pace grow for many years, and I am honored to join this leadership team. It creates the best of all worlds for me—a global client perspective and a local connection at an agency that is on the cutting edge of our industry,” says Gordon. Gordon is a native North Carolinian and graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in Media Communications. He has traveled to more than 40 countries and has lived in Charlotte, Honolulu, Dallas and Washington, D.C.

Pace
Pace is a custom content marketing leader, producing multichannel content that delivers results for a diverse client base. Our staff of more than 350 professionals consistently produces award-winning work in a variety of media, including magazines, digital, mobile content, catalogs, books, videos and e-commerce solutions. Pace was founded and is owned by Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, the current chair of the American Red Cross, and is based in Greensboro, N.C., with offices in New York, Dallas, Rogers, A.R., and San Antonio. For more information, please visit PaceCo.com, Twitter or LinkedIn.